Previews jumping up as popcorn

by Carsten Rieger ·
Published 1. October 2017
· Updated 1. December 2017

Increase the gallery performance significantly by enabling the Preview Generator app. Start the Preview Generation and wait for its end – then edit the crontab to perform periodic thumbnail generations for newly created data and finally enjoy your previews as “jumping popcorn”! So let’s start…

Ensure your gallery app v. 17+ is enabled (switch to enabled apps)

and then enable the Preview Generator app: (navigate to Multimedia and enable the Preview Generator app):

Both apps, the Gallery 17.+ and the Preview Generator 1.0.6+ App, will appear as enabled apps in the Nextcloud Enabled App-Panel:

You could also enable both apps using Nextcloud CLI (Nextcloud Command Line Interface):